English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 1
Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar lived in a vinegar bottle.
Who acts: Mr. · What happens: live · To what, where: vinegar bottle
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Vinegar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mr.), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Vinegar | cc |
| 3 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Vinegar | compound |
| 4 | Vinegar | Vinegar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mr. | conj |
| 5 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 bottle | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bottle | det |
| 8 | vinegar | vinegar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bottle | compound |
| 9 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar | a vinegar bottle | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bottle=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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